Kate Harding
Kate Harding has been writing popular feminist rants
for Internet audiences since 2007, most notably at Jezebel, at Salon’s Broadsheet blog, and at her own body-acceptance blog, Shapely
Prose. She’s also the coauthor of Lessons from the
Fat-o-Sphere, a major contributor to The Book of Jezebel, and an
essayist who’s been published in several anthologies, including Yes Means
Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World without Rape. Kate recently
started a new Tumblr blog, Don’t Get Raped (victimblaming.tumblr.com), which uses news items
about sexual assault to catalog the many situations women–and men and
children–have to avoid to fully protect themselves against the
threat of rape. She lives in Minnesota.
All Books By Kate Harding
Asking for It
- By: Kate Harding
- Narrator: Erin Bennett
- Length: 8 hours 55 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2015
- Language: English
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4.38(3618 ratings)
Every seven minutes, someone in America commits a rape. And whether that’s a football star, beloved celebrity, elected official, member of the clergy, or just an average Joe (or Joanna), there’s probably a community eager to make excuses for that person.
In Asking for It, Kate Harding combines in-depth research with an in-your-face voice to make the case that twenty-first-century America supports rapists more effectively than it supports victims. Drawing on real-world examples of what feminists call “rape culture”–from politicos’ revealing gaffes to institutional failures in higher education and the military–Harding offers ideas and suggestions for how we, as a society, can take sexual violence much more seriously without compromising the rights of the accused.
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